{"id":68333,"date":"2026-07-12T13:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/songwriter-kyle-crownover-moonlights-as-tyler-childers-tour-manager\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T13:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:40:29","slug":"songwriter-kyle-crownover-moonlights-as-tyler-childers-tour-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/songwriter-kyle-crownover-moonlights-as-tyler-childers-tour-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Songwriter Kyle Crownover Moonlights as Tyler Childers’ Tour Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tKyle Crownover is that rare singer-songwriter whose day revolves around neither singing nor songwriting. Rather, he\u2019s in charge of making sure someone else\u2019s songs are heard live: Crownover is Tyler Childers<\/a>\u2019 longtime tour manager.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut when he gets a break from overseeing one of the most dynamic live shows in music, and making his beloved rescue dog a budding social media star, he has been known to drop a few songs of his own.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGoing from work brain to creative brain can take a long time,\u201d Crownover, who in his spare time also produces albums for artists like Adeem the Artist, tells me. We\u2019re sitting at a picnic table outside a coffee shop on the campus of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. At our feet is Cheryl, his dog, occasionally yipping at passersby for attention. \u201cI got into tour managing because the idea of just writing songs for other people was terrifying. This lets me keep everything in perspective. When my creative tank is depleted, I can just stay in work mode.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCrownover has been Childers\u2019 tour manager since 2017, running the show while Childers went from bars and dance halls to arenas and stadiums and turned a single-bus-and-trailer outfit into a caravan of tour buses, semitrailers, and team members. Along the way, Crownover has witnessed the rise the Appalachian music scene \u2014 from Childers and Sturgill Simpson in Kentucky to 49 Winchester in Virginia to Charles Wesley Godwin in West Virginia \u2014\u00a0and as the music from the region has grown into a machine, Crownover has proven to be both a vital and popular cog.<\/p>\n

\n\tChilders, like most artists who can sustain arena tours, hits the road in fits and starts. In 2025, he played just under 50 shows. Such a schedule builds in downtime, not just for the artist but for the touring party. Over two months late last year, Crownover took advantage of that time and released four singles to streaming services.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first was November\u2019s \u201cThe Flame,\u201d a song he wrote with Parker Millsap. It begins as a stripped-down acoustic blend of folk and blues, about \u201cdimming down the soul\u201d and \u201cpickin\u2019 up the pace,\u201d before building to an electric rock crescendo. \u201cWe were just talking about our phones and feeling like they were sucking the life out of us, and we ran with that,\u201d Crownover says of the song\u2019s origins.<\/p>\n

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